Comments on: Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 Configuration (SprintPCS) http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/ a blog for sprout! (and her geek dad..) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-18134 James Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:03:39 +0000 #comment-18134 AT&T USBConnect Mercury works with Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box, plug in and go. (I did install on office windows xp first, so probably activated there, took about 8 minutes to get working in Windows, 30 ish seconds in Linux). DSL report speeds are comparable in both OS's/laptops AT&T USBConnect Mercury works with Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box, plug in and go. (I did install on office windows xp first, so probably activated there, took about 8 minutes to get working in Windows, 30 ish seconds in Linux).

DSL report speeds are comparable in both OS’s/laptops

]]> By: michael http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-17293 michael Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:22:07 +0000 #comment-17293 Thanks for the info, John. I hope it helps someone stumbling along this post (there are still many requests to the page). I no longer have this AirCard 585, and I now have an AT&T 3G USBConnect Mercury (Sierra Wireless Compass 885) Thanks for the info, John. I hope it helps someone stumbling along this post (there are still many requests to the page). I no longer have this AirCard 585, and I now have an AT&T 3G USBConnect Mercury (Sierra Wireless Compass 885)

]]> By: John Mitchell http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-17208 John Mitchell Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:02:14 +0000 #comment-17208 The above bug I mentioned has been tracked down as a Kernel issue in releases prior to 2.6.31 (though I can't say for certain when it was introduced). You can check your kernel version by tying the following in a Terminal: uname -r The bog only affects those with 4+ GB of RAM and does not appear to be hardware specific beyond that. The above bug I mentioned has been tracked down as a Kernel issue in releases prior to 2.6.31 (though I can’t say for certain when it was introduced). You can check your kernel version by tying the following in a Terminal:

uname -r

The bog only affects those with 4+ GB of RAM and does not appear to be hardware specific beyond that.

]]> By: John Mitchell http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-16844 John Mitchell Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:36:53 +0000 #comment-16844 I suspect there are going to be a whole bunch of folks in the coming months who are not going to be able to get their sierra wireless cards to work when they upgrade (distro or kernel). There appears to be a significant problem for those who are using 64-bit OS with more than 2GB of RAM. A very lengthy and thorough diagnosis of this issue can be seen on Novell's bugzilla site for Suse: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407592 It is not a distro based bug but rather a kernel / PCI memory allocation / BIOS based issue that is affecting Debian (kubuntu, ubuntu), Suse, etc. flavors of linux. It is not clear yet if it is limited to Dell laptops only or if others have the same problem. I know I have seen this issue on a Latitude e6500 with Ubuntu 9.04 and others posted about their experience with latitude D630 and D830s with other flavors of linux. This has impacts on you and me as well as all those newbies who attempt to try convert to linux. If you have this issue I urge you to set up an account on Novell's bugtrack and post that your experiences and urge the developers to continue their investigation into this issue. To confirm if you are experiencing this bug, open a Terminal window and type dmesg a few moments after you insert your Sierra Wireless card. You should see the message: USB HC takeover failed! (BIOS/SMM bug) within the last few lines. Again, I urge the concerned parties to post over at the Suse bugzilla (link above) to convey to them how many people this is negatively affecting. Without this showing of support this will most probably never get fixed. I suspect there are going to be a whole bunch of folks in the coming months who are not going to be able to get their sierra wireless cards to work when they upgrade (distro or kernel). There appears to be a significant problem for those who are using 64-bit OS with more than 2GB of RAM. A very lengthy and thorough diagnosis of this issue can be seen on Novell’s bugzilla site for Suse:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407592

It is not a distro based bug but rather a kernel / PCI memory allocation / BIOS based issue that is affecting Debian (kubuntu, ubuntu), Suse, etc. flavors of linux. It is not clear yet if it is limited to Dell laptops only or if others have the same problem. I know I have seen this issue on a Latitude e6500 with Ubuntu 9.04 and others posted about their experience with latitude D630 and D830s with other flavors of linux.

This has impacts on you and me as well as all those newbies who attempt to try convert to linux. If you have this issue I urge you to set up an account on Novell’s bugtrack and post that your experiences and urge the developers to continue their investigation into this issue.

To confirm if you are experiencing this bug, open a Terminal window and type dmesg a few moments after you insert your Sierra Wireless card. You should see the message:

USB HC takeover failed! (BIOS/SMM bug)

within the last few lines.

Again, I urge the concerned parties to post over at the Suse bugzilla (link above) to convey to them how many people this is negatively affecting. Without this showing of support this will most probably never get fixed.

]]> By: James http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-15825 James Mon, 18 May 2009 13:51:12 +0000 #comment-15825 I get "In file /etc/ppp/peers/sprint: unrecognized option '/dev/ttyUSB0" when I do the "sudo pon sprint". I'm running ubuntu 8.10 alternative-powerpc-ps3 (yah, I'm running it on my PS3). Any suggestions/insults to my intelligence? Please keep them simple and detailed. I'm new to linux. I get “In file /etc/ppp/peers/sprint: unrecognized option ‘/dev/ttyUSB0″ when I do the “sudo pon sprint”. I’m running ubuntu 8.10 alternative-powerpc-ps3 (yah, I’m running it on my PS3). Any suggestions/insults to my intelligence? Please keep them simple and detailed. I’m new to linux.

]]> By: Brian Koch http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-15731 Brian Koch Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:00 +0000 #comment-15731 I'm trying to use the Sierra Wireless Aircard 595 in an IBM Thinkpad R60e with RHEL version 2.6.9-42.EL installed. I'm a Linux newbie, and I'm trying to use this card in my lab using linux instead of Windows. Your steps don't seem to be working. The card turns on and appears to lock onto an EVDO carrier, but I can't get it configured properly. Any suggestions? I’m trying to use the Sierra Wireless Aircard 595 in an IBM Thinkpad R60e with RHEL version 2.6.9-42.EL installed. I’m a Linux newbie, and I’m trying to use this card in my lab using linux instead of Windows. Your steps don’t seem to be working. The card turns on and appears to lock onto an EVDO carrier, but I can’t get it configured properly. Any suggestions?

]]> By: michael http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-12611 michael Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:03:20 +0000 #comment-12611 Lulz - this has "Just Worked" with no tweaks needed for a long time :) This was originally written back when most distros were using kernel version 2.6.8. Anything using > ~2.6.16 (not certain for sure) needs nothing more than configuring either some ppp gui with a phone number, or the ppp scripts above still work peachy ;) Lulz – this has “Just Worked” with no tweaks needed for a long time :)

This was originally written back when most distros were using kernel version 2.6.8.

Anything using > ~2.6.16 (not certain for sure) needs nothing more than configuring either some ppp gui with a phone number, or the ppp scripts above still work peachy ;)

]]> By: lulz http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-12607 lulz Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:19:50 +0000 #comment-12607 Or you could just use fedora and this would work without any tweaks :-) Or you could just use fedora and this would work without any tweaks :-)

]]> By: Steve R. http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-7514 Steve R. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:38:23 +0000 #comment-7514 Thanks so much for posting this. Never take it down! It's too valuable for anyone with this card. I"m running my sprint 595 card with Ubuntu 8.04 Hairy Haggis. It works great but every time I open Firefox or Thunderbird, they start in offline mode. I have to manually set them to work online to get anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks so much for posting this. Never take it down! It’s too valuable for anyone with this card. I”m running my sprint 595 card with Ubuntu 8.04 Hairy Haggis. It works great but every time I open Firefox or Thunderbird, they start in offline mode. I have to manually set them to work online to get anywhere. Any ideas?

]]> By: Sangensche Muharajew http://www.pbandjelly.org/2006/12/sierra-wireless-aircard-595-configuration-sprintpcs/comment-page-1/#comment-7424 Sangensche Muharajew Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:34:24 +0000 #comment-7424 I'm a Newbee to Linux and would like to install my Aircard 595, it works good under windows xp, I've installed openSuse 10.3 and can't get it running, any help I’m a Newbee to Linux and would like to install my Aircard 595, it works good under windows xp, I’ve installed openSuse 10.3 and can’t get it running, any help

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